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DHagar
8/25/2017 5:48:54 PM User Rank Platinum
Re: Smart City Analytics
@Kishore, great observations! If it performs as the other transformations with digital information have, I believe that the smartphone data (being multi-modal) will better capture both the high number of variables, as well as more real-time information than the street lights. As it follows the user, it is a better core source of data and builds its own data sets.
Re: Smart City Analytics
@afwriter: I am not sure what your question is. I am guessing it is the familiar point made often that there is not enough public transportation in the USA. This was regularly countered by the point that public transportation is inefficient particularly because a lot of time is lost when you change the mode from say a train to a bus. Information from mobile phones helps to get the timing right and that is what Shanaah is saying in this Q&A.
I am personally not a fan of public transportation. There is no way it can achieve the flexibility, speed, and ease of a car. On some routes, where a point-to-point connection is possible, it works. Here is San Francisco, a lot of people work in the financial district and they use public transportation because there is no parking. The experience sucks because the trains are crowded and frequently break down as they are old and poorly maintained.
Furthermore, public transportation takes up a lot of valuable real estate on the streets if not most of it but does not use it as much as cars do. Shared cars will help, autonomous will be even better so that parking space is freed up. I won't be surprised if in coming years people demand the removal of especially light trains which take up more than half the street space so that more autonomous cars can be used.
afwriter
8/25/2017 11:27:12 AM User Rank Platinum
Re: Smart City Analytics
@Kishore, Do you think that has anything to do with the fact that more Americans drive than in other countries or is it just where we have chosen to place our priorities right now?
Re: Smart City Analytics
What I found curious about Orange's approach is that it takes the data from smartphones which can be used for making intermodal transportation choices. Companies in the US, on the other hand, are focused on traffic management and the data is coming from street lights. Hard to say which one will be more viable.
DHagar
8/24/2017 5:13:52 PM User Rank Platinum
Re: Smart City Analytics
@clrmoney, we do have active development of autonomous vehicles, but the infrastructure tied with Smart Cities deals with the transportation infrastructure and capacity, and the "connectedness" that cities can provide from their unique role with geography and public services.
I truly like Orange's focus on analytics and the deliverables from Smart Cities.
batye
8/24/2017 3:29:53 AM User Rank Platinum
Re: Smart City Analytics
@clrmoney I would say not yet but we gonna see it soon the way things happening...
clrmoney
8/23/2017 2:28:27 PM User Rank Platinum
Smart City Analytics
I thought we already had smart transportation in some newer version cars but smart cities can be mainly positive with some downsides to it.
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